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How to enter the Chateau.

If you are from San d'Oria you need Rank 2 or better.

If you are NOT from San d'Oria you need Rank 3.

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Edited, Sun Dec 7 14:51:09 2003

Okay.. here's what a friend and I did.

We're both Tarutaru lvl 18. All out Windurstian. We traveled to San d'Oria and did the rabbit hide and batwing quests like a bagillion times (added up I think I did over 40 quests). After that, the guy in the Lion Springs Tavern said we were famous. We then went back to Windurst, because the only way we were ever going to be allowed into the Chateau was if we were doing Mission 2-3/Mission 6 (The Three Kingdoms). Got the required Mission, went back to San d'Oria, and I got the quest. Nothing too hard about it...

Unless you count the 2 grueling days of collecting batwings and rabbit hides.. but just learn from our mistakes and come to San d'Oria with a good amount of cash and just buy stacks of them at the Auction House.

Hope this helps!

Im BLM 12 from Windurst and Im doing mission 2-1, Can I enter the chateau?? Or do I have to be doing the emissary mission (2-3)... Is rank 2 enough (of course after getting all the fame needed)... I was going to make the on foot trip from Windurst to San d'Oria (though mhaura), but if I cant enter the castle I wont bother

Ok, here what i did.

I bought the Blood from the Aution House. Its about 2k. Talked to the vampire guy. It then went to a cut seen and he then told me about the blood he needed. So i forked over the blood and gained the scroll. Simple enough.
Im rank 2, lvl 14 BLM and ive finished alot of quests. As everyone has said before, its a MUST to have the town know you, otherwise the vampire tells you to do away.

Hope this helps.

Mission 6(?) for Windurst, Three Kingdoms, requires that you go to Bastok and San d'Oria. If you go to San d'Oria (Not sure if order matters. I did it first) and talk to the consulate there, you can get into the castle area and the NPC who starts the quest. I currently dont have enough fame in San d'Oria, so I couldn't get the quest, but there is a chance that you dont NEED to be rank 2 in San d'Oria.
However, I don't know if being rank 2 in San d'Oria is still a requirement just to get the quest, or if you just need fame & lvl 12. Also, after the San d'Oria part of the mission is done, I suspect you wont be able to get into the castle anymore. Though, I haven't tested that either. If someone can conferm any of these thoughts, that'd be helpful.

I stayed all night increasing my fame, and finally I became famous in Sandoria.
Now when I try go in, the guard won't let me.
Help? =S

P.S. I'm lv25blm/11whm from Windurst.

is this quest repeatable?

What section of the auction house can you get the blood? Misc? or Leathercraft never seem to find it in the San AH. Thanks!!

I know 3 ppl from winD that did this quest, you are not screwed if yer from winD, you just have to earn fame...so dont listen to the other guy.

Half the information here is udder and completely CRAP...2 thirds maybe. looks guys here is the skinny on how to do this.

First you have to get into the castle, which means as a sandorian you just complete the three missions for rank 2. you can now freely enter. aperently you can do these missions at about 6-7 level. but you'll need someone to spot for ya.

then you do quests, now there might be other ways to get this moron to talk to you, but the easiest is to do repeatable quests, they work, and work fast. bat wings, rabbit hides, and flint stones are the best. do them by sets and check every so often at the pub. when they guy there says your famous (tall elf dude at the table, not the bard) you can go get the drain spell.

If your from windhurst, you cant do it. there no way i found they gona let you in. however, bastok can.

so there is it is, simple. if anyone tells you different, its crap (or more complicated, most likely there are multible conditions to recive quests). hell you dont even need to be level 11 to do the save the children mission, unlike the site says. off hand it costs me about 6k for materials to do the quests. but then if i wanted to spend time there is a bunch of rabbits outside the door, they drop skins all the time.

Ok. I finally got quest after 17 other quests and multiple rabbit hide/batwing repeats.

Lvl 13 BLM, rank 2, sandoria at the time.

[Orange]For me, I didn't check between doing my 17th quest, and then giving 3 sets of bat wings and 2 sets of rabbit hides before checking fame with Nomajuice.[Orange]

So i cant say the exact turning point, whether it be new quest number or total quest including repeats. I did a lot of repeats previously too...so i would definately say i was up around 30 total quests, including repeat at the time.

OK i am from windurst so i start at the bottom of the barrel, i did 7 stacks of bat wings and 2 stacks of rabbit hides and he gave me quest enough said

The official requirement is the completion of 30 seperate quests from San doria. I spent a week questing and I did 25 seperate quests and he would not accept me (I'm rank 2, level 25 from Windhurst). I doubled up on some repeatable quests (about 5) and he still wouldn't accept. If you repeat a quest your fame only gradually increases whereas a new quest gives you more fame (Ihate magic flyers). I repeated about 5 more and he would finally accept (maybe repeated quests give half fame). Lizard skins/sheep skins and rabbit skins and flints are all repeatable, find whats cheapest or easiest to get and redo them OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Another note is that when oyur fame increases a level Hanaa punaa (?) will give you a different quest, from sheepskins-->lizard skins-->tiger skins.

OK, I can confirm without a doubt that fame DOES play a role in aquiring this spell. I'm a citizen of San d'Oria and am currently rank 2, level 12. I kept checking with the guy at the tavern until he said that I have brought great honour to the kingdom (or somesuch) with 17 quests completed. 16 could be the minimum, I checked with 15 done, and I still wasn't well known, handed in my 16th and 17th quests then went and I got the good news. And I went to talk to Novalmauge and guess what, I FINALLY GOT THE QUEST. So yay? I hope this helps everyone. My advice to you is to go through the San d'Orian quest lists and do the ones with components easily purchased, or are not too difficult. Happy hunting, hope this clears things up.

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